Today, IBM is introducing Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) version 5.5, which
offers a host of new features and functionality that are designed to
introduce key improvements in data security, performance, functionality,
and ease of use. TSM plays an integral role in helping customers optimize
storage assets, protect the integrity of their data and comply with data
retention requirements. TSM provides centralized, policy-based management
capable of handling virtually any type of data on practically any form of
storage. Its progressive incremental methodology, subfile backup
capabilities and tight integration with storage hardware devices such as
IBM N series and NetApp Advanced Single Instance Store (A-SIS) can greatly
reduce data redundancy, network bandwidth and storage resource consumption.

"Business of all sizes need data protection solutions that will not only
manage their information growth, but that can also provide solid business
continuity, protection against system disruptions, data security and quick
recovery of critical data in the event of an outage," said Craig Smelser,
Vice President, IBM Tivoli Storage and Security Development. "TSM version
5.5 should help our customers to address the availability, reliability and
performance of business-critical applications and hardware, and should help
them optimize their storage requirements and meet ongoing needs for data
security."

New TSM version 5.5 product features and enhancements introduced today
include:

-- Enhanced data security, encryption and key management for TSM clients:
The TSM client has supported the optional encryption of data before being
sent to the TSM server, helping to secure backup and archive data during
transmission and storage. TSM now generates, encrypts, stores and manages
the encryption key in the TSM database for TSM clients. This is in
addition to its existing support for application protection modules,
applications that exploit the TSM application programming interface (API),
and application managed encryption for the IBM TS1120 and LTO-4 tape
drives. With encryption keys managed by the TSM server and not the end
user, authorized users always have access to their data without having to
remember the encryption password.
-- Enhanced Microsoft Windows application coverage: These enhancements
help improve both recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time
objectives (RTO) for large SQL databases and Exchange servers via TSM's
support of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for Microsoft SQL and
exploitation of VSS for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Recovery point objectives
can be improved as more frequent, low impact backups can be performed.
Recovery time objectives also can be improved via the ability to perform
virtually instant restores from local snapshot backups. The ease of use of
TSM HSM for Windows has also been enhanced with an enhanced graphical user
interface, as well as enhanced interoperability with other file system
filter based software (such as anti-virus software) and enhanced storage
utilization.
-- Integrated approach to protection of VMware environments: This
integration simplifies configuration and provides improved data management
when TSM is used in a VMware environment. This is accomplished via TSM
version 5.5 integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) to coordinate
the movement of virtual machine data from the VCB proxy server to tape
devices.
-- Enhanced scalability and performance: With the introduction of
concurrent retrieve access, TSM version 5.5 is able to implement more
efficient restore capabilities from sequential access disk pools. This new
feature enables multiple TSM operations to perform simultaneous restore
operations.
-- Enhanced ease-of-use: With simple re-start for server-to-server
export/import TSM version 5.5 enables the movement of backup and meta data
from one server to another, helping minimize the impact of a disruption to
operations such as a network outage.

According to a recent IDC report [1], in Q207 IBM achieved double digit
year-over-year revenue growth in the storage software, growing fastest and
gaining the most revenue share of the top three vendors. This marks the
tenth consecutive quarter that IBM Storage Software had
equal-or-above-market average revenue growth.

As part of the IBM Service Management and Information Risk Management
initiatives, Tivoli Storage Manager continues to play an integral role in
helping customers optimize storage assets, protect the integrity and
resiliency of their data and comply with data retention requirements. IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager V5.5 will be available on November 16, 2007 through
IBM and IBM Business Partners. For information about IBM and its storage
solutions, please visit http://www.ibm.com/storage.